I'm trying to learn how to animate models - specifically robotic arms (some of you from halomaps have prolly seen the models). Anyway - I linked the arms together in a tree, and got the pivot points to the right places. But now I'm kinda lost. I would assume that there's some tutorials on this such as offspring's animated scenery tutorial... But to make it sync, it needs to be a device machine, and I have no idea how to create those...

So... where do I start with all this?